Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Center said Saturday it will use the 1.5 million Canadian dollars (¥137 million) in its Japan Earthquake Relief Fund to assist the education of young people in the Tohoku region affected by the 2011 disasters. “The future of the region ...
A 21-year-old Canadian tourist’s body has been founded wedged in a water tank atop a downtown Los Angeles hotel, authorities said Thursday, and more testing must be done to determine the cause of death. An autopsy performed the same day didn’t provide definitive answers ...
Two days of face-to-face meetings between Canada’s trade minister and his EU counterpart, ending late Thursday, failed to break a deadlock on the last stumbling blocks to reaching a free-trade pact. “Progress was made in several of the areas that remain outstanding. However, further ...
Canada started phasing out its penny, the nuisance coins that clutter dressers and cost more than their one-cent value to produce. The Royal Canadian Mint on Monday officially ended its distribution of pennies to financial institutions. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced last year they ...
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded six of Canada’s major financial institutions on Monday because of concerns over high levels of consumer debt among Canadians and elevated house prices. The ratings affect Toronto-Dominion Bank, Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, National Bank and ...
Indigenous Canadians marched on the capital and other major cities Friday and threatened to bring the country’s economy “to its knees” as their leaders met with officials to try to resolve a dispute over extreme poverty on reservations. As many as 500 protested in ...
The polar bear was more than 1 km away and began running toward the dog sled, quickly closing the distance on the frozen Arctic waters of Canada’s Resolute Bay. One of Mark Beeler’s Inuit guides released two dogs to distract it while Beeler, a ...
Canada’s Conservative government will soon stop producing and distributing medical marijuana, leaving it up to the private sector in a policy change that angered critics Monday. Canadian Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq made the announcement Sunday, claiming current regulations “have left the system open to ...
Canada on Friday approved two major takeovers of energy firms by the Chinese state-owned giant CNOOC and Malaysia’s national oil company, Petronas — deals estimated to top $20 billion in total. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced regulatory approval for CNOOC’s $15.1 billion takeover of ...
